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What city is this?

I'll reach out, I've considered similar ideas for a awhile now.

A reshuffling might give: NopeAI or PeonAI

Can anyone specify the coverage this will have in the Northern US? Are there any coverage maps?

I have six kids, eldest 10, so 3 in school, other 3 pre K and younger. I think I essentially gave up today on online learning. I decided to grab some math circle books and a whiteboard. I’m also going to get the Mathematica for schools setup and teach them myself. I essentially have to make a choice between doing my job full time at home, or letting them essentially whither into gaming/YouTube addicts. Not sure what will happen, but school for them has been a joke so far.

Don’t forget the anthrax used here either a month after 911.

This idea of the mutations being 'random' is pretty meaningless. A real question is whether or not something is intentionally engineered to pass these kinds of 'randomness' tests.

Just to give you an example, this is an active area of research that Raytheon is engaged in: https://www.raytheonintelligenceandspace.com/news/feature/ri...

Maude fascinates me to no end. Currently I'm actually re-learning kdb+/q as I want to implement some things related to bioinformatics using it, but at some point I'd really like to do some things with logic/dependent types in biology. Happy to chat further grant <at> eonias dot org

Yeah, checkout Maude--really woefully underutilized. Some fascinating things around pathway logic that are applied to biology: http://pl.csl.sri.com

Not sure which field of bionanotechnology (I assume you meant bionanotechnology ) you work in, but for the one I work in, the metaphor of biology and computer science is extremely intertwined—like very explicitly. Circuits, computation, the whole nine yards. If you’re talking about graphene or something that is an entirely different field. I can’t see how this book was a terrible critique of bionanotechnology—or at least an excellent discussion of the hardships faced.

I think this was first written about at length in the book ‘Soft Machines’, which is a really good critique of some of the nanotechnology thinking at the time. I highly recommend the book.

This is a good book along those lines:

https://www.amazon.com/Touchstone-Life-Information-Communica...

Yes, I work at one of the major universities in the US. Watch over the next week as the guidance on this changes.

Frankly, you don't need to be 'qualified' to read review articles in this area--I encourage any logical citizen to do so. Specialist articles?...sure, it's unlikely you will gain much from reading those.

> From what I gathered from their guidance the basically say masks are not effective enough to protect you & people do not know how to use them.

Why give them to nurses and doctors then? It would suffice for the patients to wear them. If they do work at protecting you, then let's say a patient can't wear one, should you wear one? The answer is yes. Therefore the only logical conclusion is that an N95 mask protects you.

Did you read the paper I linked? Read it, and then tell me what the facts are. Whether or not they are offering advice based on facts or political considerations is a matter of debate. There is no real meaningful debate on the mechanisms of influenza transmission. 1 mechanism is decidedly airborne. How else can you reasonably explain infection rates? Hundreds of thousands of people are letting other people sneeze directly on them? The literature is clear about this, frankly I have no idea what the WHO is smoking.

Yes, see my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727995

It's bewildering the US and European guidance on this.

Edit: read this carefully: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843947/ It will apply to SARS-CoV-2

In the US we are using the Defense Production Act to make ventilators--this is good, but really we need the focus to be on N95 masks. With the current level of disinformation regarding droplet spread this isn't happening--this is the tragedy. We need the leaders of the world to realize that it really is N95 masks that are going to be the key. You can safely restart more portions of the economy with everyone wearing PPE that is of high quality and effective. The fact that this isn't priority one is mind boggling.

No--emphatically no. N95 will protect you from aerosols which is why we desperately need like a billion of them, the key point being protect you. It doesn't matter which side of a wall you are on, if it is concrete you won't be able to see the other side. It makes no difference which side of the N95 wall the virion particles are on--they won't get out or the won't get you. My take on this is that the the government knows everyone needs an N95, however there simply aren't near enough and so the obvious fact that this is a baseline requirement is being downplayed. I will say this clearly: everyone in America needs an N95 now and for the foreseeable future in public. That is the optimal way to proceed--because it is aerosolized, period end of story.

I think this is very wrong. Looking back I think this distinction is what people will point to as the big mistake people made. This idea of large droplets in itself is basically meaningless. I encourage everyone to read [O] very carefully. This thing will shed into the air, and it will infect others. Countries that encourage everyone to wear masks will succeed in containing this. There is way too much bs being discussed around large droplets. The paper I link to is looking at influenza A in particular, but I am making the very strong assertion that SARS-CoV-2 will show significant homology with regard to transmission behavior. I think the rates of infection alone bear this out if people think clearly about this.

[O] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843947/

Also worth noting is that the term conspiracy theory is itself traceable to psyops.

I can't think of anything that is not a textbook. That said, I would recommend[0]. You will encounter a lot of vocabulary, just use Wikipedia and look on YouTube for animations/explanations etc. I think this will give you the most bang for your buck.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123737410/viruses-and...

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Viruses-Second-Carl-Zimmer/dp/... might be good, haven't read it though

The book ‘Virolution’ details this.

> They are cooperating to destroy US efforts at self-sufficiency

This is naive. The real target is Iran, the Saudis would never do this without US approval.

In a few words?....'Don't write the code in the first place'. Yes, follow best practices of modules etc, but in general write a lot less code. This is harder than it sounds, and often requires multiple rewrites.

I’ll also add ‘Financial Market Rates and Flows’ by James C. Van Horne’.

I recommend: ‘The Origins of Economic Disorder’ by Fred Block, and ‘The Vega Factor’ by Kent Moors.

Type the DOI into sci-hub.tw

Yes, and here is a good overview of it in the context of some contentious research [1].

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030631271666642...

I wrote [1] a couple of months ago, a sort of 'clean baseball' version, under the overall auspices of a fund. I've also recently pitched an idea to win Senate seats, but haven't heard anything back on that one (major funding needed). Anyway, if there is interest, or just to brainstorm (as I enjoy this sorta thing), please drop me a line. grant AT eonias DOT (typical non-profit top level domain)

[1] http://d28jgulqbmbful.cloudfront.net/EarthSWF.pdf

Do you think there is any appetite for funding these types of alternative ‘campaigns’. I’ve also thought a bit about this.